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Uh Plus Duh May Spell Trouble for Obama:This is because the government shutdown was the result of the Democrats’ adamant
refusal to delay the imposition of the Obama health law, which was clearly
identified by its Republican opponents as a “train wreck waiting to happen.”

The voters are now seeing that train wreck in the form of a totally botched
web site designed to handle enrollment in the Obama program. They are also
seeing it in sharply increased health insurance premiums and reduced insurance coverage,
results that have occurred because ObamaCare forces medical insurance companies
to accept people with pre-existing conditions at the same premiums as people without
such conditions. This requirement means that people without preexisting
conditions must help to cover the higher costs of insuring those with
preexisting conditions. When the costs of providing insurance are increased, premiums
must increase and/or coverage decrease to hold down costs, or companies must go
out of business.

This carnage could have been avoided, along with the government shutdown,
if only Obama and his henchman, Harry Reid, the Democrat Majority Leader of
the Senate, had relented and postponed the imposition of ObamaCare. That would
have given the members of Congress a fresh opportunity to actually read and
study the law they passed without bothering to perform this very elementary and
essential aspect of their duties as the people’s representatives.

If the voters have the ability to put two and two together, which,
unfortunately, is by no means certain, then perhaps there will soon be a third
headline in The New York Times, one
to the effect that those responsible for ObamaCare are fleeing to the hills to
escape the wrath of the electorate.